The National tribune., 1887-01-06
FIGHTING THEM OVER
What Our Veterans Have 10 Say About
Their Old Campaigns
THE estla NEW YORK.
Comrade Morey Writes Again of ChRpns Farm aud
Richmoud


COmrsde Morey Writes Again Of Chapins Farm aud
Richmond.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: II Comrade
RRndlet. Of Maxwell, Iowa, will put on has
spectacles again aud read my article, al
Chapins Farm" he will notice that i said the
column was three miles long Though has
regiment aud brigade were there. yet venture
o. say he Will not claim for either Of them a
length Of three miles, unless " on the skedaddle."
Again I did not state that ours was the first
regiment inside Fort Harrison on "Ghapms
Farm" ] said, So the regiment went over
the escarpment, and, of course, the other rcgi-
ments were not 10 be outdune by ours There
might have been forty regiments inside the
works at the right or left OF me.
DIDN'T STOP TO SEE.
i had business of my own 10 attend TO- and IL
COmFRde Randlet had as much he wouldn't be
on quite such familiar terms as 20 know just
what each General. officer, and color bearer was
doing in the Eighteenth aud Tenth Corps on
that 29th day of September, 1864.
MY Colonel has written q history, such ms il
u.s. OF the 9cth aud he says, "Ord 5 commanders
oi divisions aud brigaaos that day were Stan
nard, Humham, hickman, Meiizel, Roberts
and Col. Stevens" His corps captured 800
prisoners and p heavy cannon. Ord aud Stan
nard were wounded, and Gen. Bumham was
killed. Col. Stevens, 18Th n. H., commanded
our brigade. In that engagement the 9oth had
nine killed, two MORALLY wounded and 81
wounded. 10 was in the first line, and among
the first 10 enter Fort Harrison. Gen. Stannard
marched ON foot with the 9Sth. We sent TO
division headquarters two Confederate flags
which IL captured in the fort. picked them up
j suppose eh, where your fellows had thrown
them down, because your bearers were busy
Capts. Lewis, Rogers aud Lieut.. Stanton-in
fact ali the oiicers-Tendered important service.
The new position of the regiment was four
p1flaC 4 ortd frnu
James, and six from Richmond. The bottom
lands extended from the river 10 Fort Harri-
son, which stood on the brow of bluff. In
the attack our troops marched through AN open
field,
EVERY FOOT OF WHICH
was commanded by the guns of the enemy. At
first he poured upon them mimic balls, shells
and solid shot, and as they approached he
changed 10 grape and canister. am not speak
ing OF the second day-only the first. Hereaf
Ger j may describe the grand and successful
charges made 10y the rebels under President
Daviss eye TO retase the position.
Comrades, seriously, do not doubt you were
all there-except myself j used to think
was there, bnt THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
which is correct you kuOw-don't give right
picture Of me, though must say Klem," the |
artist must have been there.
Again, through this same paper have heard 1
from my old Captain Lewis than whom no /
drawer officer ever led men; and on sending
him my photo he wants 10 know who il is. So
you see Pm not myself at all, I'm bachelor |
forlorn," as the boys used TO sing.
But as the cOmrade
WANTS ANOTHER SHOT,
when ! get my gun in order I'll try again Can |
any regiment in the service show a better /
record than the following2:
HEADo' RS aSTH N Y Vols, 1
In THE FIELD, March o. isG5 J /
CAPTATN: have the honor 20 acknowledge the |
receipt 81 your communication Of to-day directing
compliance with circular orders from corps head |
quarters, dated Aiarch 2l requiring regmentsl
commanders 10 make out and forward To those
headquarters lists of Hl suspected bounty jumpers
IN their commands and la reply am happy 10 n-
form you that this regiment has no bounty jump
efB, thai uo person ever deserted from II 10 the
enemy, and that have no list 10 make.
Will respect, your obedient servant,
RM. KREUTZER,
Lieut.-Col. Com Dig Reg't
To Capt, II. HOOKER Hoadq NJ Third division,
Twenty fourth Corps.
Still more, some Of these chaps who take
forts and cities first and all alone had better
keep few trophies. We claim that the 9sth
was 3rst in the city of Richmond and that our
nag was the first TO wave over the roof Of
the collapsed C0Hfederacy. Not that IL went
alone, for Diapers Black Brigade passed
through Fort Harrison along the Osborn turn
pike; but half way TO Richmond, from the ex-
terior line OF Confederate Notifications these
two roads unite, and from their intersection
Deyens's Division had the advance. And our
regiment
LED THAT DIVISION.
Arrived opposite the front entrance Of the City
Hall IL halted. Across the street the Capitol
grounds were filed with goods taken from the
burned district, and the portico and steps Of the
ediice were densely packed with the homeless
tenants, extremely Old extremely young, sick
and infrm.
Adit Oakley, followed by Color Sergeant
Tiny father was on the color guard, pressed his
way through the crowd, and, ascending the
building first waved our regimental flag from
the root OF the Capitol of the Southern Confed-
eracy. Leaving the flag Oakley descended An
hour later Sergt Hardy was relieved by Lieut.
j. J.. DePeyster, of Gen. MeitZels staff; and
DePeyster assisted by Capt. Langdon, Weitzel's
Chief OF Artillery, hOisted over the building a
storm flag, which had waved over the St Charles
Hotel In New Orleans during Buffers admin
1station. DePeyster was hOnOred by Gov |
Fenton with Brevet Lieutenant Colonelcy.
but no member Of the 9Sth ever received from
any one a thank or the merest recognition for
the service.
When DePeyster raised his garrison flag over
the Capitol OF Virginia he displaced the
sILKEN coLoRs OF THE 9srH.
A Sergeant, a Corporal and six privates were
taken from the regiment and placed on guard
over the late residence of President Davis.
Other details were made and sent, among them
my father 10 Libby Prison lie has the Bible
found there, while have the rebel guard book
used that last morning
As the regiments of the division arrived they
were sent TO guard the roads leading TO the CITY.
10 take charge Of the prisons, to seize the arms
and Government stores TO maintain order and
% put out the fire. The colored troops were
halted below Rockets, and not allowed 10 enter
The city. Our Colonel was made one of the
Provost Marslals of lhe CITY and his distric,
included the Virginia Central Railroad Depot,
nearly all the tobacco warehouses Libby Pris.
on, Castle Thunder Chimborazo Hospital. q
portion Of the city called Bird-in-the-H Hand.
and Rockets, the port Of Richmond.-A. /.
koREY, West Derby, VT
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